Philosophy offers a means of unpacking and grappling with important questions and issues relevant to nursing practice, research, scholarship, and education. By engaging in these discussions, this Handbook provides a gateway to new understandings of nursing.
The Handbook, which is split loosely into seven sections, begins with a foundational chapter exploring philosophy’s relationship to and with nursing and nursing theory. Subsequent sections thereafter examine a wide range of philosophic issues relevant to nursing knowledge and activity.
- Philosophy and nursing, philosophy and science, nursing theory
- Nursing’s ethical dimension is described
- Philosophic questions concerning patient care are investigated
- Socio-contextual and political concerns relevant to nursing are unpacked
- Contributors tackle difficult questions confronting nursing
- Difficulties around speech, courage, and race/otherness are discussed
- Philosophic questions pertaining to scholarship, research, and technology are addressed
International in scope, this volume provides a vital reference for all those interested in thinking about nursing, whether students, practitioners, researchers, or educators.
- Introduction
- Nursing, Philosophy, and Nursing Philosophy
- On the Contribution of the Nursing Theorists
- Philosophy of Science and Nursing Research
- What is the Art in the Art and Science of Nursing?
- The Knowledge of Nursology
- (Normative) Moral Theory and Nursing Practice
- Nursing: a moral profession?
- Remembering the Future: Nursing’s Social Ethics
- Nursing and Morality in China: The Necessity and Possibility of a Confucian Ethics of Care
- Islamic humanism: Towards Understanding Nursing Care for Muslim Patients
- Dependency
- Pain: Levinas and Ethics
- Vulnerability and Relations of Care
- Placebo Effect and Nursing
- Collectivism, personhood, and the role of patient and family
- A hermeneutical agential conception of suffering
- Hermeneutic phenomenology, person centred care, and loneliness
- Why thriving – and well-being – ought to be fundamental goals in nursing
- Life and Death: Nursing responses to euthanasia
- Care and Compassion in Nursing
- Nursing's endless pursuit of professionalization
- Medicine and Nursing Through the Advanced Nurse Practitioner Lens
- The promotion of resilience in nursing: reification, second order signification and neoliberalism
- Problematizing Moral Distress, Moral Resilience, and Moral Courage: Implications for Nurse Education and Moral Agency
- Equality, equity, and distributional justice in nursing: agism and other impediments
- Avoiding the Triumph of Emptiness: The Threats of Educational Fundamentalism and Anti-Intellectualism in Nursing Education
- Who knew? Towards a sociology of ignorance in nursing.
- Self-sacrifice in nursing: Taboo or valuable reality?
- Is there a personal responsibility for health?
- Care and Its Entanglements
- Rethinking Holism: Expanding the Lens from Patient Experience to Human Experience
- Empathy and Dialogue in Nursing Care
- Navigating the Edges of Critical Justice Theory through the Logic of Nursing
- Anxiety and moral courage: The path to authentic nursing?
- Freedom of speech as a philosophy of nursing
- Using Philosophical Inquiry to Dismantle Dominant Thinking in Nursing about Race and Racism
- Perpetuating the whiteness of nursing: Enculturation and nurse education
- What can queers teach us about nursing ethics?
- No as an Act of Care: A Glossary for Kinship, Care Praxis, and Nursing’s Radical Imagination
- Phenomenology and nursing
- Is there anyone here who has a genuine medical problem? Health, illness, and Aristotle
- Concept analysis
- Epistemic injustice and vulnerability
- A process philosophy perspective on the relationality of nursing and leadership
- Technology and nursing
- Teaching and Learning Clinical Reasoning: Maximizing Human Intelligence, Expert Clinical Reasoning, Scientific Knowledge, and Decision-Making Supports
Martin Lipscomb
Mark Risjord
Sally Thorne
Robyn Bluhm
Graham McCaffrey
Jacqueline Fawcett
Paul Snelling
Roger Newham
Marsha D Fowler
Jing-Bao Nie
Mustafa M Bodrick, and Jason A Wolf, and Ghadah Abdullah, and Mutlaq B Almutairi, and Abdulaziz M Alsufyani, and Fatma S Alsolamy, and Hisham M Alfayyadh
Simon van der Weele
Lawrence Burns
Thomas Foth
Daniele Chiffi, and Mattia Andreoletti
Ingrid Hanssen
Franco A Carnevale
Ken Hok Man Ho, and Vico Chung Lim Chiang
Marit Kirkevoid
Martin Woods
Sigríður Halldórsdóttir
Denise J Drevdahl, and Mary K Canales
Martin McNamara, and Wayne Thompson
Michael Traynor
Pamela J Grace
Michael Igoumenidis, and Evridiki Papastavrou
Louise Racine, and Helen Vandenberg
Amélie Perron
Inge van Nistelrooij
M Murat Civaner
Holly Symonds-Brown, and Harkeert Judge, and Christine Ceci
Jason A Wolf, and Mustafa M Bodrick, and Freda DeKeyser Ganz
Fredrik Svenaeus
Barbara Pesut
Dawn Freshwater
Roger Watson
Annette J Browne, and Colleen Varcoe, and Lydia Wytenbroek, and Ismalia De Sousa, and Chloe Crosschild
Debra Jackson
Maurice Nagington
Jessica Dillard-Wright, and Favorite Iradukunda, and Ruth De Souza, and Claire Valderama-Wallace
Dan Zahavi
Peter Allmark
John Paley
Havi Carel
Miriam Bender
Olga Petrovskaya
Patricia Benner
Biography
Martin Lipscomb is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester's Three Counties School of Nursing and Midwifery (UK).
